Example sentences of "[coord] less the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next . |
2 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
3 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
4 | The station itself was being supervised by a presiding officer ( £96.55 ) doing more or less the same thing . |
5 | Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series . |
6 | Could there be Bacon rooms , more or less the same , dotted throughout the house in order to create confusion ? |
7 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
8 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
9 | It appears to be aimed squarely at what the Americans would call a ‘ resort diver ’ , rather than someone like me who dives several times a week in more or less the same areas . |
10 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
11 | ( Johnston 1976 , p. 217 ) At more or less the same time , Laura Mulvey took the discussion of women 's desire and fantasy out of the realm of the ideological/symbolic . |
12 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
13 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
14 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |
15 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
16 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
17 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
18 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
19 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
20 | Other phrases with more or less the same meaning are nihil obstat ( ‘ nothing hinders ’ ) and cum licentia ( ‘ with licence ’ or ‘ with permission ’ ) . |
21 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
22 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
23 | The prices seemed more or less the same as those in London at the time I 'd left — a box of matches or a bar of Cadbury 's chocolate cost a penny . |
24 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
25 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
26 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
27 | Of the situation regarding museums , Mr Sekera explained , ‘ Since 1989 state support has been nominally more or less the same after allowing for inflation . |
28 | Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower . |
29 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
30 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |